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After my experience trying to get flash on ubuntu ppc, i'll take just about anything that hurts Adobe.

• eznet 18y ago
  As much as I hate to agree with such a malicious statement, I do have to agree that Adobe has not helped their case for community support in their lack-luster support for the Linux and open source communities. I have used Adobe products for many, many years and have used Flash since it was a Macromedia product and can say that some of the interesting things done with the internet in its earlier days would have likely not been possible without Flash. On the other hand, as a developer and a FOSS user, I am ready for another tool to accomplish what Flash does without all the headaches that we have been forced to endure over the years with flash and proprietary plug-ins in general...
  • stcredzero 18y ago
    If Google also pushed/developed some open media player and animation technologies and integrated these into Javascript or into browsers, why would we need Silverlight and Air at all?
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    • partoa 18y ago
      Actually, all they have to do is make their Lively "plugin" work from all websites and you would have your animation technology. Why the had to keep this one to themselves I don't know, but I'm glad they did because it leaves that opportunity available to some other innovative organization.
• there 18y ago
  most navigation and simple animation can be done in javascript+canvas now, so as soon as there's an open, reliable, bandwidth-efficient, cross-platform video solution that browsers can support, i think flash will go the way of java applets. the iphone will probably help push this along as there's now a large group of people (besides me on my openbsd laptop) that can't navigate websites that require flash.